Tale 81 — A pale man lies against the cloud wall
When Maekawa Mankichi was coming home from a night of pleasure, he looked at the cloud wall at the corner of the veranda and saw a pale-faced man lying pressed close against it, asleep. He was greatly startled and fell ill, but this too was no omen of anything.
This is an English rendering of our short Japanese summary of the source tale — a summary translated from the Japanese, not a translation of the original text. The summary was drafted and translated with AI assistance, and names and numbers were checked against our records.